Schaum's Outline of Continuum Mechanics

Excellent - very helpful.

This is a great text to use as a quick reference for most things continuum mechanics- Mase does a very respectable job at summarizing this beautiful subject. I think this would be a great supplement to a CM course, although the notation strays from what is popular today. The power of this book is that almost everything appears in both indicial notation and Gibbs (boldface) notation. This makes it easy to follow along even if you aren't yet comfortable with the indicial notation. The worked problems are all very brief- they demonstrate in perhaps the simplest manner possible the basics of mechanics. Like every other CM book out there, this one has a few things that are done exceptionally well, and a few things that fall short. I will continue my search for the best CM book in print...Across 200 some pages, the topics include math prelims; stress; deformation; kinematics; balance laws; linear elasticity; linear fluids; classical plasticity; classical viscoelasticity. The figures are clear and illustrate the points being made. I don't know if I got a bad printing, but the superposed dots used to indicate time derivatives didn't appear in my copy.

This outline was excellent. The chapters summarize what we went over in class. The worked problems allowed for more practice actually using the theory.

Like most other Schaum's series, the theory sections are condensed, which makes the part more like a compendium of continuum mechanics. The theoretical sections are thus good for a quick review of the material but not a good resource for "learning" the material. The biggest advantage of the book is that it provides an inexpensive summary of continuum mechanics.The downside of the book is that the solved problems are not similar to the type of problems one confronts in a typical continuum course. In most cases several problems (statement together with the solution) are presented in a single page, which shows that each problem has been solved in 1-5 lines. I personally don't like most of the problems presented here; however, the problems could be useful for warming up.A better book is "Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous Medium" by Malvern, which is the best I've seen in explaining the intricacies of the theory. Another good complement is Holzapfel's "Nonlinear Solid Mechanics: A Continuum Approach for Engineering", which contains both the theory AND some solved sample problems.

Great coverage and detail.

Excelent product!

Prep for a masters Course in Mechanical Engineering

As described

The book was good, i needed for one course at university and it helped me a lot, has lots of good examples

V good

Excellent book, however, figure of book don't have a good quality, of PDF on internet have more quality that print.

Para el estudio genial

Want to learn about the stress tensor. Look no further. Want to learn about Mohr circles. It all here explained clearly.